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Flat batteries

Your piece about the Italian company that charges batteries contained a serious historical inaccuracy (Feedback, 5 July). This obviously reflects your tender years and therefore can be forgiven.

You did not take your radio to be recharged, just the low-tension (LT) battery. Back in 1952, when I was 10, all the houses in the street where I lived had mains electricity, except for one, owned by an elderly lady, that only had gas. I earned pocket money by taking her LT battery to the local charging station (Abel & Smith’s electrical shop), where I would leave the flat cell …